Chapter 9. Building Web Services with VB .NET

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Microsoft likes to point out that part of the goal of .NET is to act like a huge operating system. In effect, the entire Internet becomes your operating system, or at least your network. This means that pieces of your applications can be distributed over the Internet, but your applications run as if the pieces were all on your local machine.

Imagine if you had told someone back in the early days of Visual Basic that someday they'd be writing their applications in a number of separate components and putting those parts on different machines. The application sitting on the ...

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